by Kile Smith | Aug 20, 2014 | Art songs, Children's Music, Choral music, New Compositions, Vocal music
I’ve attended their concerts for years, so I’m excited to be a part of Lyric Fest’s upcoming season as Composer in Residence! A Shakespeare trio, a choral work with audience participation, a large song cycle using new poems inspired by new paintings,...
by Kile Smith | Jan 13, 2014 | Choral music, New Compositions, new music
Just got to the end of my new piece for the Pennsylvania Girlchoir, a setting of a certain poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Although there’s still lots and lots of work to do now that I’ve hit that double bar, I love hitting double bars, I love hitting...
by Kile Smith | Nov 7, 2013 | Anthem, Art songs, New Compositions, Orchestral Music
Just sent out my second e-blast of the year, maybe third. The email marketing service I use thinks I should blast more often, and maybe they’re right—it’s their business to know these things, I suppose—but I’m thinking it’d just annoy people if...
by Kile Smith | Jul 7, 2013 | Brass Quintet, Chamber Music, New Compositions, new music
Delighted to report that the Philadelphia Brass has been playing the newest version of Red-tail and Hummingbird, just finishing up two festivals where they featured it. On June 29th they played it at the Sam Maitin Summer Chamber Music Festival in Cape May, N.J., and...
by Kile Smith | May 17, 2013 | Dance Music, Early Music, New Compositions, new music, Orchestral Music, String Orchestra
I could hardly have been happier at the premiere of The Red Book of Montserrat last night at the Perelman Theater in the Kimmel Center, Philadelphia. This newest string orchestra work is a 20-minute suite commissioned by the Philadelphia Sinfonia, Gary White, music...
by Kile Smith | May 5, 2013 | Dance Music, Early Music, New Compositions, new music, Orchestral Music, String Orchestra
The Red Book of Montserrat is a suite for string orchestra commissioned by the Philadelphia Sinfonia, the excellent youth orchestra Gary White directs. It sets five of the ten songs from the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat, the 14th-century book of music and texts from...